Salman

Where Salman comes from

Borrowed from Arabic سَلْمَان (salmān).
— Wiktionary's entry for Salman
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #4,190 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2015
    Peak, #1,259
    143 babies named Salman — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,480.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.